Niagara Falls Memorial expands OB/GYN services

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Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center on Friday announced the addition of three physicians and a family nurse practitioner to its women’s health department, which includes its labor and delivery unit.

Gil M. Farkash, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., is a graduate of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo. A diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Farkash is a laborist and site director at the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital and a former chief of obstetrics and gynecology for Kaleida Health.

Martin Caliendo, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., is a graduate of the Aurora University and M.D. Rush Medical College. He served his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Loyola University Medical Center and subsequently completed a master’s degree in patient safety at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Caliendo is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and currently serves as medical director for OB Hospitalist Services at Oishei Children’s Hospital.

Farkash and Caliendo will provide care at Memorial as laborists – experienced hospital-based physicians who respond to obstetric emergencies and care for women in labor to ensure a doctor experienced in delivering babies is present to use current, evidence-based practice protocols at all stages of the labor, delivery and post-delivery care of mother and baby.

Archana Sonig, M.D., is expected to begin working full time at Memorial upon completing her OB/GYN residency at the University of Buffalo this summer. Sonig is a graduate of the Kasturba Medical College, India, and the Rabindranath Tagore Medical College, India, where she was awarded a master’s degree in obstetrics and gynecology.

She has previously worked as a clinical researcher and research coordinator at both the University of Buffalo and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana.

Erin DeMarco, FNP-BC, has joined the staff as a full-time women’s health nurse practitioner.

A Niagara Falls native, DeMarco holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Daemen College and a Master of Science degree/family nurse practitioner from D’Youville College. She previously worked as a registered nurse in Memorial’s medical/surgical and emergency departments.

DeMarco will provide outpatient obstetric and gynecological care at both The OB/GYN Center at Niagara Falls Memorial and The OB/GYN Center at the Summit Healthplex.

“These experienced providers will help oversee the care of expectant mothers and work with our established OB/GYNs and medical center staff to provide optimal inpatient and outpatient care and patient satisfaction,” said Memorial President and CEO Joseph A. Ruffolo.